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“Firaxis has realigned its development resources in order to streamline its development process, reduce costs and maximize the overall performance the studio," read a 2K statement sent out to news group Kotaku.

2K assures that the reductions “will not impact Firaxis' ability to create and deliver AAA titles, including its forthcoming Sid Meier's Civilization V and Sid Meier's Civilization Network for Facebook."

The civilisation project itself is set for a September release, and was built from an entirely new game engine. Though 2K failed to specify which roles were made redundant, Kotaku sources suggest the layoff operation covered a wide number of job positions – from QA to UI to animators, programmers and, bizarrely, designers.